I found this nice little article on: 9 Ways to Master Your Inbox

I am going to try it and I’ll let you know how it goes

Fear is the most powerful manipulative force in our lives – and it must be overcome in order for us to grow, learn and enjoy professional and personal successes.

Simply put: Conquer your fear, and your ability to succeed is unlimited.

Fear can breed more fear. Fear can paralyzes. Fear can imprisons us. It doesn’t have to.

When becoming aware of these new e-tools and/or trying them for the 1st time, my biggest roadblock is fear. I feel a twinge of fear every time I sign up for a new account or sit down to spend some of my precious time on learning these new technologies.

Have courage friends… you will make mistakes and learn from them, you will have successes sometimes when you don’t expect it

Now that you are starting to use all these new and exciting e-tools, you may find it hard to keep track of all your passwords. I have a strategy that might work for you. Of course I won’t tell you my specific strategy or you will know all my passwords… not that I don’t trust you

My Password Strategy

I take a few of letters from the website and then add some consistent numbers.
For example, I might use the 1st 3 letters of the name of web site with the 1st 4 digits of an old employee number:

• for delicious -> del1780
• for google docs -> goo1780
• for pbworks -> pbw1780

The numbers usually have some significance to me so I will remember like:

• my house number
• an old student number
• an old employee number
• part of my phone number
• my extension at work

The result is a different password for each web site and it is easy to remember.

I am so excited that Anne and Helen have left a comment on my welcome post.
It is an interesting process when a comment is left. I have total control of all comments.

• An email was sent to me with a links to:
  • accept the comment
  • delete the comment
  • mark the comment as span

I, of course, accepted them.
If you are thinking of using blogs in your course, know that you can review comments before they are posted as can your students if they have blogs.

A great e-tool to start with is delicious.com. This is a social bookmarking tool that I use to share my bookmarks with my students.

Watch this video and learn more:

How to start:

1. signup for your free account
2. import your bookmarks from your home and work computer/s
3. install the bookmarking buttons into your browser. It is not necessary but it makes bookmarking a lot easier
   (if you are at Fanshawe College you will have to ask the help desk folks to do it for you. You need administrative rights).
4. add tags and comments to your bookmarks

Comments and Tags

Comments help you remember what the site is about.
Tags help you organize your bookmarks.
This video gives a good explanation of tags:

Give it a try. Share your experiences by commenting on this blog post

Welcome to edutechfan.  A blog written by Julie Whitehead about using educational technology in a post secondary setting.

Welcome to the folks from Fanshawe College.

I hope you will find this blog handy and full of useful information on the current e-tools ‘out there’

I hope to take you on a journey of learning and collaboration.